Fomadon Excel (W27) film developer

Just want to add (7 years later) for the record, I've used this developer with the Xtol times to no ill effect. It's fantastic for pushing as well. I managed to push some Kentmere 400 to 6400 and it looks beautiful. I buy it because I could never get through 5L of Xtol before it went bad.

Punker said:

Just want to add (7 years later) for the record, I've used this developer with the Xtol times to no ill effect. It's fantastic for pushing as well. I managed to push some Kentmere 400 to 6400 and it looks beautiful. I buy it because I could never get through 5L of Xtol before it went bad.

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Always nice to get confirmation as to whether one product is the same as another.

Same here: Went over to this product because of the insane package size of Kodak XTOL. Found times and results to be absolutely comparable.
One difference though: The Fomadon Excel once went dead on me, which had never happened with XTOL. Same storage conditions etc., but only a single data point, mind.